There’s a great post today from Seth Godin which concisely summarises the difference between marketing and sales. In summary:
Marketing tells a story that spreads.
Sales overcomes the natural resistance to say yes.
Seth then posed the interesting question – how do you overcome that resistance where you don’t have a salesforce?
For companies that use their website to generate [...]
The following YouTube video was brought to my attention by a colleague.
It was created by a US marketing company, extolling the benefits of Inbound marketing over Outbound in a humorous and musical [...]
With the shift of marketing budgets towards online activities, more and more companies are adding collecting visitor data, using technologies such as Google Analytics.
However a recent survey in eMarketer reports that while 79% of companies are capturing data, only 30% are then using that data to improve the perfromance of their internet marketing and website!
This is [...]
One of the ‘joys’ of social networking, Web 2.0 and the internet today is that people are sharing their opinions about products and services all the time.
When researching a purchase, most people will look for reviews and testimonials to add some ‘colour’ to the supplier’s own information. A good supplier understands this and will encourage clients to [...]